MY AUS VISA — PRIVATE TEMPORARY GRADUATE 485 STREAM AND TIMELINE PLANNER
Reviewed: 4 October 2026

Keep this on your own device. It is not a skills assessment, visa form, deadline calculator or eligibility decision. Do not send identity, health, police or study records to MyAusVisa.

STREAM TO CHECK
[ ] Post-Vocational Education Work: associate degree, diploma or trade qualification linked to a nominated skilled occupation and skills assessment.
[ ] Post-Higher Education Work: eligible Australian degree, or check a related graduate diploma against both current Home Affairs pages. The stream eligibility panel says completed in the same or next academic year as the awarded degree; the changes page says commenced. Record both dates and seek clarification if the difference matters.
[ ] Second Post-Higher Education Work: already hold an eligible first 485 and meet the regional degree and residence rules.
Exact stream and official page I will use:
Age at application and any official exception to verify:

STUDY AND DATES
CRICOS course code(s), registered weeks and study locations:
Actual study period physically in Australia and any credits:
Date provider first advised me in writing that I completed academic requirements:
Completion letter date and transcript available:
Student visa and current visa type and expiry:
[ ] Check the 6-month completion window on the official page; do not use the graduation ceremony date.
[ ] Check the 92 CRICOS weeks and 16 calendar months physically studied in Australia, if required.

FAMILY IF RELEVANT — USE THE 485 RULE
[ ] Open Include family and Apply from on my exact 485 stream. The new Student 500 after-grant restriction is not the 485 instruction.
[ ] If family joins my initial application, check the current requirement for them to be in Australia when I apply.
[ ] If family plans to apply after my 485 grant, check the separate subsequent-entrant application, location, family-unit, health and character rules.
[ ] Before a decision, check the different rules for adding a child and adding another family member; do not assume either has been added.
People and application timing I need to check privately:

EVIDENCE AT APPLICATION
[ ] Check current English-language evidence and test validity for my stream.
[ ] First vocational or higher-education stream: for every applicant aged 16 or older, apply for the AFP check in the 12 months before lodgement, no later than the day before. Keep evidence of the application date; a same-day AFP application does not meet these two stream instructions.
[ ] Second regional stream: check its separate instruction to provide a complete-disclosure AFP National Police Certificate for grant; do not assume the first-stream application-date rule is its stated document requirement.
[ ] Check adequate health insurance for every applicant at lodgement and through the visa period.
[ ] For vocational stream, record nominated occupation and skills-assessment application evidence.
[ ] For second regional stream, record first 485 grant, degree institution location and two years of regional residence evidence.
[ ] Read the current fee, location and other visa conditions before submitting.

485 overview: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/temporary-graduate-485
485 study requirement: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/temporary-graduate-485/meeting-the-temporary-graduate-visa-subclass-485-study-requirement
485 vocational family: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/temporary-graduate-485/post-vocational-education-work#About
485 higher-education family: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/temporary-graduate-485/post-higher-education-work#About
485 second regional family: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/temporary-graduate-485/second-post-higher-education-work#About
Our guide: https://myausvisa.com/temporary-graduate-visa-485-streams-and-eligibility
